The scheme will also deliver a ‘coherent’ network of streets, as well as a ‘grand staircase’ that will connect a podium courtyard to the parkside promenade.

According to the practice, the scheme – one of the first to be developed on the peninsula – has to both respond to its current context and ‘anticipate the eventual context’ as the peninsula is developed.

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